COMMERCIAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 24 October 1912, Page 5

COMMERCIAL

N.Z. LOAN AND M.A. CO., LTD. AND REDUCED.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., and Reduced, Stratford branch, report as follows:— On Saturday, October 19, we held our weekly springing heifer sale in our Stratford yards, when there was a fair yarding of 50 heifers and 10 dairy cows. Nearly all the cattle were disposed of at the hammer at satisfactory prices as follows: Shorthorn heifers, close to profit, £7 10s to £9 2s 6d; Shorthorn heifers, backward and low in condition, £4 7s 6d to £6 15s; Holstein heifers, £8 10s to £9 7s 6d; heifers showing Jer-sey-Holstein cross, £9 to £10. Dairy cows realised from £5 to £10 for cows showing down well.

On Monday, October 21, we held our annual bull fair in our Stratford yards, when there was a large yarding of 120 bulls and also a good attendance of buyers, over 130 being present. Prices on the whole were rather low compared with last season's opening rates. The quality, with a few exceptions, was rough, and the bulls were an unattractive lot of cattle which did not impress buyers, but anything showing quality attracted fair bidding as compared with other sales this season. A good percentage were sold at prices as follows: Shorthorn yearling bulls, 3gns. to 4gns; Shorthorn bulls, 2 years and upwards, 7gns to 12gns; Holstein bulls, 4gns to o^gns; Holstein bulls, 2 years old, to 4 years old,, sgns to 13fgns; Jersey yearling bulls, 3gns to 6gns; Jersey bulls, 2 years to 6 years, sgns to ilgns; bulls of" Jersey-Ayrshire cross realised from 7gns to 9^gns. On Tuesday, October 22, we held our usual fortnightly combined sale in our Stratford yards, when there was a yarding of 570 head of mixed cattle and 18 fat sheep. Prices for store cows are very good at present, as they are keenly sought after. We quote prices as follows: Mixed yearlings, of poor quality, 32s to 52s 6d; yearling steers, Shorthorn sorts, small framed, made from 50 s to 58s; good conditioned cattle realised from 60s to 67s 6d; yearling Shorthorn heifers, small, but in good condition, made from 58s to 635; Jer-sey-Holstein cross yearling heifers realised from 70s to 100s, for nice welldone farmers' lines; Jersey, yearling heifers, of good quality, brought good prices, making from 90s to 114s 6d; 2-year-old steers, 85s to 90s; 2-year-old empty heifers, Shorthorn sorts, made from 83s to 90s; Holstein heifers, 89s to 100s; 3-year-old steers, 105s to 116s; store cows, low conditioned, 48s; cows, ordinary sorts, 76s to 89s; forward cows, 92s to 102s; fat cows, 120s to 1265. We also sold 18 forward ewes at 17s 4d.

We also held a dairy sal« on the same day, heifers coming forward in good numbers. Prices were rather better than on Saturday and we quote as follows: Shorthorn heifers, close to profit, 140s to 177s 6d; heifers, rather backward, 87s 6d to 120s; Jersey-Holstein heifers, close to profit, 150s to 200s; dairy cows, close to profit, 135s to 2255; cows in low condition and backward, brought from 65s to 100s; 2-year heifers, calved, realised from 115s to 1455.